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Fungi can help concrete heal its own cracks

  • Written by Congrui Jin, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Could a secret ingredient make crumbling concrete a thing of the past?m_e_mccarron, CC BY-SA

Infrastructure supports and facilitates our daily lives – think of the roads we drive on, the bridges and tunnels that help transport people and freight, the office buildings where we work and the dams that provide the water we drink. But it’s...

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